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In Paper City, Japanese survivors recount their experiences of the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo

Image: Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Review: Paper City, directed by Adrian Francis In his first feature-length documentary, Adelaide-born director Adrian Francis offers a rigorous understanding of the...

Nude Tuesday has a sex therapy retreat, an egotistical guru, a script in gibberish – and two very different translations

Image: Stan Review: Nude Tuesday, directed by Armağan Ballantyne Nude Tuesday is a tale of two films – two subtitle tracks, anyway. Directed by Armağan Ballantyne and...

The Beatles: Get Back review – Peter Jackson’s TV series is a thrilling, funny (and long) treat for fans

  Photo courtesy of Apple Corps Ltd The Beatles’ Get Back project, undertaken in January 1969, has finally been completed. Again. For most of the last...

Social inequality and hyper violence: why the bleak world of Netflix’s Squid Game is a streaming phenomenon

  YOUNGKYU PARK/ Netflix Squid Game, an original Netflix drama produced in South Korea, is a streaming phenomenon. Released on 17 September, within two weeks the series...

Bring out the popcorn: the best films set to roar into cinemas in the second half of 2021

 Picture: Roadshow Films For cinephiles, one of the greatest blows of the initial COVID lockdown was the closure of cinemas. While we all quickly shifted...

We asked two experts to watch The Father and Supernova. These new films show the fear and loss that come with dementia

 Olivia Coleman and Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020) IMDB Two new films explore the fear of forgetting, loss of control, and other complexities that...

Max Richter’s Sleep, a filmed antidote to modern life with music to dream by

 Photo by MIKE TERRY/Madman Review: Max Richter’s Sleep, directed by Natalie Johns. Music does things. For German-born, English-raised composer Max Richter, music is a “vehicle for travelling through the...

How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth

   Jacob Junior Nayinggul (left) and Simon Baker in High Ground (2020). Maxo, Bunya Productions, Savage Films   The Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission...

Film review: Wild Things packs passionate climate activism into an overly polite documentary

 Picture: Potential Films The content of some films is so close to the heart that it’s difficult to critically evaluate them. If you’re an atheist, The...

Ammonite: the remarkable real science of Mary Anning and her fossils

 Transmission Films This story contains spoilers for Ammonite Palaeontologist Mary Anning is known for discovering a multitude of Jurassic fossils from Lyme Regis on England’s Dorset...
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